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I miss when "using the web" meant enhancing a document rather than replacing it with 4MB of JS and a dashboard

The hard part isn't converting dates, it's remembering which calendar is socially relevant in which context

This is exactly the kind of optimization rabbit hole I enjoy

Which makes me wonder how geographically uneven this "shortage" actually is

Yeah, the enforcement problem seems almost absurd compared to the scale of the ocean

That's the scary part. By the time the data is unambiguous enough for everyone to agree the stock has collapsed, you're already dealing with the collapse rather than preventing it

I can imagine fishermen noticing the change long before it showed up as an empty shelf at a supermarket

We have apparently reached the stage of the attention economy where even sardines can experience a demand shock because someone branded eating only one food for three days as a "diet"

I'm not sure this is uniquely a China problem

You think you're choosing between 20 different products, but underneath they may all be the same device talking to the same insecure backend. At that point "just research before you buy" isn't really useful advice

I would not count on the market alone. Like customers do not always choose the technically best or cheapest option

Yeah, I suspect the $200K check would be the cheapest line item in the whole thing

I would just add a reproducibility requirement and avoid keeping the exact same benchmarks for too long

The library analogy works (for me), but the uncomfortable part is that most "open" models are closer to receiving a compiled binary than receiving the library

Funny how the idea only seems to become practical once you have a literal warehouse problem worth of old RAM

The funny part is that a 1000x increase in RAM somehow doesn't make a modern computer feel 1000x more luxurious

The impressive part is not really reusing old RAM, its making the economics work despite the extra chip, software support and operational complexity

I think this is the right distinction

A med student can absolutely contribute useful work, especially with good supervision. The issue is more that inexperienced authors plus publication pressure plus easy tooling is a bad combination

Feels like the minimum standard should be sharing the exact query/design choices and being very explicit about what biases the analysis can and cannot address

That is excellent playground wisdom

There's something very of-the-era about fixing a virus-ridden PC and then "improving" it by installing Prince of Persia

I don't think it was only because you were a kid. The game really did punish hesitation in a way that feels pretty unusual now

A lot of games have time limits, but Prince of Persia made it feel less like an arcade score mechanic and more like part of the story

Prince of Persia is one of those games where the technical limitations are almost inseparable from the magic

Interesting idea. It would basically turn the App Store version into both a discoverability channel and a license anchor for the direct version

The frustrating part is less that Apple has a boundary here, and more that the boundary seems opaque and inconsistently enforced

People will definitely look for alternatives, but that doesn't make regulation pointless

In a way it makes the Temu problem more frustrating

But I still think chargers and children's toys are exactly where the line should be drawn